In the second of our one-day online seminars for dharmacharinis supporting those in the ordination process, we'll be looking at what is effective Going for Refuge to the Three Jewels. As someone gets close to being ready to join the Order, all the Order members around them will be engaged in the work of reaching consensus as to when that might happen.

Following on from our popular online events for Dharmacharinis, the first of three online Order seminars offered by the Tiratanaloka team will explore how to support your local ordination process.

‘What is joy in the garden of the Dharma? It is the joy of guarding the bodhicitta, of ripening living beings’.

We are in the realm of the spiritually positive, a world glowing with colour and flashing with light.’ A Survey of Buddhism

‘Love grows continuously like a ceaseless melody.  Love projects itself as open ended, with no set nature.  With no limited focus and being non-conceptual in its being, it exhibits the purity of body, speech and mind.  Thus love is transformed into compassion.’ Padmasambhava

‘One brings what one has experienced on the mountain top down into the valley… or one brings what one has experienced in the depths up to the surface, from darkness into light.  It is in bringing down, or bringing up, of what one has experienced on the heights, or in the depths, of one’s own being, and giving it concrete form… that the essence of creativity consists’  St Jerome Revisited

‘But there is something about the movement, the Order and even about me that is not easily definable. There is a touch of something that cannot be buttoned down, something that cannot in the end be defined. Even the desire to button it down or define it is a mistake – that was the mistake that the Theravada made in connection with its Vinaya. Everyone will need to take care of that rather mysterious, indefinable spirit that gives the movement life and energy.’ What is the Western Buddhist Order?

Welcome women Mitra Convenors of Europe!  Tiratanaloka is very happy to host the Autumn Mitra Convenor’s Gathering supported by Vajratara.  This gathering is by invitation only.  If you unsure whether you are invited, contact Viryanaya on viryanaya@tirylanhouse.org

‘Resolved fearlessly to pursue, frankly to examine and faithfully to accept and follow, whatever the truth about Buddhism might turn out to be, such an ideal student could be said to be fairly well equipped for the study of Buddhism.’ A Survey of Buddhism

‘I had the satisfaction of knowing that in founding the Western Buddhist Order I had founded a sangha or spiritual community that not only shared my realization that Going for Refuge was the central and definitive act of the Buddhist life but also shared … my conviction that that realization itself was capable of continued growth and development.’ The History of my Going for Refuge

‘You need to establish yourself in the right way of life, the right circumstances, and just leave it at that, just continue indefinitely in that way. Allow yourself to build up momentum. Allow your skilful lifestyle to have its effect over a number of years. This of course assumes that the lifestyle is one that really does suit you and is conducive to your growth and development.’  (Milarepa and the Art of Discipleship 2)